Books and media in the area of Political Science can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings. In addition you cane limit your results to Audio Visual materials.
For Example: Plato and political philosophy
Marx and communism
Executive powers and president*
Congressional Committee* and legislation
Amendments and Constitution
United States and government
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Suggested Subject Headings:
Communism
Democracy
Political Science
Socialism
United States - Politics and government
America's Historical Imprints Full text access to historical American newspapers, books, broadsides, ephemera, government documents, and more. EBSCO E-Books Collections contains e-books on many academic subjects. Every word in every book is searchable and users can preview the e-books online and can check out the book for a specified amount of time. Oxford Reference offers access to dictionaries, language reference tools, and subject reference tools from multiple disciplines. Great resource for background information or to get started when researching a new topic
View a tutorial on how to use Oxford Reference Oxford Scholarship online access to thousands of academic monographs, in 20 subject areas across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Ancient Political Philosophy from the Stanford University Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. ViewTipsheet CQ Almanac is an annual reference for studying the U.S. Congress. CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions integrates many of CQ Press's acclaimed reference titles on government and politics into a user-friendly, electronic format that offers a number of Web-enabled features that makes navigating this wealth of content intuitive and easy. Electronic Journal Centerr contains full text of 6000+ research journals. HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,400 law and law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of law journals, HeinOnline also contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more. International Political Science Abstracts abstracts and some full text of the world's leading journals in political science LexisNexis Access to extensive news coverage, business content, legal-research resources, and medical information. The best starting place for current news, business, and legal research. View tips on how to search LexisNexis. View Tutorial from YouTube Ohio Capitol Connection provides information about current and past legislation of the Ohio General Assembly ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress. ProQuest Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is an authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations
American Presidency Project archives contain 103,251 documents related to the study of the Presidency. Constitution of the United States Provides analysis and annotations of Court decisions pursuant to a particular amendment or other part of the constitution. Founders Constitution Includes the constitution and documents used by the Founding Fathers. GovTrack use to research and track legislation in the United States Congress, including Members of Congress, bills and resolutions, voting records, and committee activity. GPO The government Printing Office core mission of Keeping America Informed, dated to 1813 when Congress determined to make information regarding the work of the three branches of Government available to all Americans. The U.S Government Printing Office (GPO) provides publishing and dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, and the American public. GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its wor Political Resources on the Net Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world. Thomas (Library of Congress) provides federal legislative information freely available to the public, whichc includes bills, activity in congress, congressional records, schedules, calendars, committee information, treaties and other government resources. The Ultimate Political Science Links Page This is an outstanding site. It covers associations, areas of study, resources, journals, archived commentary and more. United States Congress: House of Representatives. this sites provides bills, floor activity, search for your representative, committee reports and other reports and information about the House of Representatives United States: Senate Voice of the Shuttle: Politics and Government Covers these areas: General Political Resources, Political Theory & Philosophy, General International Politics, France, U.K., Russia, U.S. White House Yahoo's Political Science This is one of the best places to begin your research. Organized by categories, such as political economy, political theory or public administration. Site listings provided for each category.
B 3305 .M77 2000 Marx a very short introduction HX 73 .N48 Socialism: a very short introduction JA 66 .B48 2012 Governance : a very short introduction JA 66 .S34 2010 Exploring political ideas : concepts that shape our world JA 71 .M457 2003 Political philosophy : a very short introduction JC 71 .A41 E94 Aristotle Politics JK 275 .C66 2012 What you should know about politics-- but don't : a nonpartisan guide to the issues that matter JK 311 .S723 2008 How your government really works : a topical encyclopedia of the federal government JK 511 .P75 2013 Powers of the presidency JK 1041 .R58 2010 U.S. Congress a very short introduction JK 1965 .S78 2008 Student's guide to elections JK 1965 M34 2007 American political parties and elections a very short introduction JK 2408 .D68 2013 Politics and policy in American states and communities
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Finding Books & Media
Books and media in the area of Political Science can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings. In addition you cane limit your results to Audio Visual materials.For Example: Plato and political philosophy
Marx and communism
Executive powers and president*
Congressional Committee* and legislation
Amendments and Constitution
United States and government
If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLink Central Catalog
View Tip Sheet: Using OhioLink Central Catalog
Coming Soon: Tutorial on searching in the UA library catalog
Coming Soon: Tutorial on searching and requesting materials from the OhioLink library catalog
Suggested Subject Headings:
CommunismDemocracy
Political Science
Socialism
United States - Politics and government
For a full listing click here
Browse the Shelves by Call Number:
B (Political philosophy)E201 (United States-History-American Revolution)
E300-332 (Founding Fathers: Washington, Adams, Jefferson)
HV6001-6773 (Crime and Criminology)
HV7231-9220 (Criminal Justice)
HX (Socialism and Communism)
J-JK (Political Science)
K (Law)
KF4501-5130 (Constitutional law)
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REF HV 6779 .S63 2012 Social history of crime and punishment in America : an encyclopedia
REF HV 7419 E53 2014 Encyclopedia of criminal justice ethics
REF JA 61 .E513 2011 The encyclopedia of political science
REF JK 468.P64 Q55 2011 Governing America : major decisions of federal, state, and local governments from 1789 to the present
REF JK 511 .P775 2012 The presidency A to Z
REF JK 516 .G85 2013 Guide to the presidency and the executive branch
REF JK 1021 .C565 2013 Guide to Congress
REF JK 1967 .A8 America Votes
REF JK 1976 .M57 2012 Elections A to Z
REF KF 154 .E528 2012 Encyclopedia of American law and criminal justice
REF KF 397 .G27 2013 Gale encyclopedia of everyday law
REF KF4557 .G76 2012 Constitutional amendments : an encyclopedia of the people, procedures, politics, primary documents, campaigns for the 27 Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
REF KF 4770 .L56 2013 First Amendment rights : an encyclopedia
REF KF 8742 .H37 2012 Landmark Supreme Court cases : the most influential decisions of the Supreme Court of the United State
Online:
Database of on-line E-books
America's Historical Imprints Full text access to historical American newspapers, books, broadsides, ephemera, government documents, and more.EBSCO E-Books Collections contains e-books on many academic subjects. Every word in every book is searchable and users can preview the e-books online and can check out the book for a specified amount of time.
Oxford Reference offers access to dictionaries, language reference tools, and subject reference tools from multiple disciplines. Great resource for background information or to get started when researching a new topic
View a tutorial on how to use Oxford Reference
Oxford Scholarship online access to thousands of academic monographs, in 20 subject areas across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Suggested E-books
American politics and societyCampaign and election reform : a reference handbook
Capital : a critique of political economy. Vol. I,by Karl Marx
Concise Oxford dictionary of politics
Encyclopedia of modern political thought. Volume 1 and 2
Encyclopedia of social media and politics
Encyclopedia of U.S. campaigns, elections, and electoral behavior
Encyclopedia of the United States cabinet
Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
From socialism to capitalism
Gale encyclopedia of U.S. history. Government and politics
Great debate : Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the birth of right and left
International encyclopedia of the social sciences
Introduction to Political theory
Jeffersonian cyclopedia : a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson
Oxford guide to the United States government
Socrates and philosophy in the dialogues of Plato
Statistical Resources on the Web: Political Science
Who, what and where of America
The works of Thomas Paine
Recommended Databases:
Ancient Political Philosophy from the Stanford UniversityAcademic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. View Tipsheet
CQ Almanac is an annual reference for studying the U.S. Congress.
CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions integrates many of CQ Press's acclaimed reference titles on government and politics into a user-friendly, electronic format that offers a number of Web-enabled features that makes navigating this wealth of content intuitive and easy.
Electronic Journal Centerr contains full text of 6000+ research journals.
HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,400 law and law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of law journals, HeinOnline also contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more.
International Political Science Abstracts abstracts and some full text of the world's leading journals in political science
LexisNexis Access to extensive news coverage, business content, legal-research resources, and medical information. The best starting place for current news, business, and legal research. View tips on how to search LexisNexis. View Tutorial from YouTube
Ohio Capitol Connection provides information about current and past legislation of the Ohio General Assembly
ProQuest Congressional offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress.
ProQuest Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.
ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is an authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations
View a tutorial: how to use and search ProQuest.
View a tutorial: Performed an advance search using EBSCO Host Databases
View a tutorial: Perform a basic search using EBSCO host databases
Recommended Periodicals
E-Journals:
E-Journal Finder: Access full text titles from a variety of databasesAmerican journal of political science
American political science review
International journal of political economy
Political quarterly
Political science quarterly
Recommended Websites:
American Presidency Project archives contain 103,251 documents related to the study of the Presidency.Constitution of the United States Provides analysis and annotations of Court decisions pursuant to a particular amendment or other part of the constitution.
Founders Constitution Includes the constitution and documents used by the Founding Fathers.
GovTrack use to research and track legislation in the United States Congress, including Members of Congress, bills and resolutions, voting records, and committee activity.
GPO The government Printing Office core mission of Keeping America Informed, dated to 1813 when Congress determined to make information regarding the work of the three branches of Government available to all Americans. The U.S Government Printing Office (GPO) provides publishing and dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, and the American public.
GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its wor
Political Resources on the Net Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world.
Thomas (Library of Congress) provides federal legislative information freely available to the public, whichc includes bills, activity in congress, congressional records, schedules, calendars, committee information, treaties and other government resources.
The Ultimate Political Science Links Page This is an outstanding site. It covers associations, areas of study, resources, journals, archived commentary and more.
United States Congress: House of Representatives. this sites provides bills, floor activity, search for your representative, committee reports and other reports and information about the House of Representatives
United States: Senate
Voice of the Shuttle: Politics and Government Covers these areas: General Political Resources, Political Theory & Philosophy, General International Politics, France, U.K., Russia, U.S.
White House
Yahoo's Political Science This is one of the best places to begin your research. Organized by categories, such as political economy, political theory or public administration. Site listings provided for each category.
Professional Organizations:
American Political Science AssociationInternational Political Science Association
Law and Society Association
Northeastern Political Science Association
Brush Up on the Basics
Need an overview on this topic? Check out these basic resources:Audiovisual:
Films on Demand is a web-based digital video service streaming educational titles in dozens of subject areas.
E 302.5 .F68 2000 DVD Founding Fathers (2 volume set)
E 302.6 .H2 A44 2007 DVD Alexander Hamilton
E 757 .T33 2003 DVD Teddy Roosevelt (2 volume set)
JK 1021.C6645 2004 DVD The Congress
KF 5593 .P3 2006 DVD No Umbrella: Election day in the city
KF 373 .H644 R634 DVD Road to Brown
KF 451 .D88 2004 DVD DVD history of the U.S. Constitution (4 volume set)
Books:
B 3305 .M77 2000 Marx a very short introductionHX 73 .N48 Socialism: a very short introduction
JA 66 .B48 2012 Governance : a very short introduction
JA 66 .S34 2010 Exploring political ideas : concepts that shape our world
JA 71 .M457 2003 Political philosophy : a very short introduction
JC 71 .A41 E94 Aristotle Politics
JK 275 .C66 2012 What you should know about politics-- but don't : a nonpartisan guide to the issues that matter
JK 311 .S723 2008 How your government really works : a topical encyclopedia of the federal government
JK 511 .P75 2013 Powers of the presidency
JK 1041 .R58 2010 U.S. Congress a very short introduction
JK 1965 .S78 2008 Student's guide to elections
JK 1965 M34 2007 American political parties and elections a very short introduction
JK 2408 .D68 2013 Politics and policy in American states and communities
Online Materials:
Analyzing American DemocracyBalance of Power
Elections and political parties (online documentary)
God and the constitution (online documentary)
Karl Marx (online documentary)
Moyers & Company : How Do Liberals and Conservatives See the World? (on-line documentary)
Judicial branch of government (online documentary)
Political philosophy (online documentary)
Political science research in practice (online book)
Document Your Sources
The Smucker Learning Center's documents and informationStyle Guides in the Library's collection:
Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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